Day 2: It's Revcon Time!

"Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin" (ulteriormotors) 01/01/2016 at 12:55 • Filed to: photography, iamNOTthespeedhunter

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This is another oddball from the SF Bay area. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Revcon RV.

The Revcon was designed bu John Hall, who was the driving design force at Aristream for many years before doing his own thing and making RVs. This one is fairly early, but later models adopted a sleek aero fiberglass nose section. Personally, I dig the aluminum box.

Unlike most RVs of the time, the Revcon did not use a steel c-channel chassis but rather aluminum box section making for a much stiffer frame. It also had no driveshaft, because it was front-wheel drive. This allowed the Revcon to have a lower center of gravity, which improved handling. It’s not a very high bar, but it’s something.

Revcon RVs were designed around the engine and front axle from the 1968 toronado. GM didn’t believe that it would be a strudy enough assembly, so Revcon tested the whole thing and found it to be more than strong enough. A few years later, with Revcon having proved the concept, GM started doing the same thing on their RV designs.

The Revcon also used aluminum skins on the interior and exterior with several inches of dense fiberglass in between. They’re light, comfortable, and no one’s ever heard of them. They also appear to age very well, even when not maintained (like this one).

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Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin 01/02/2016 at 15:52

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Look up ultravans for some interesting rvs :)

Urambo Tauro > Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin 01/02/2016 at 16:14

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FWD motorhome, huh? Not every day you encounter one of those. Such a setup is what made the Decoliner possible, too.

doc > Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin 08/06/2018 at 22:35

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The early Revcon was the very best motorhome ever made....until John Hall was unceremoniously booted in 1972. From that point, Revcon began to lose the purity of his excell ent design and started becoming ‘ the motor home that imitated the imitators’ . (I was employee #18 in Mar of 1971 and saw it all happen as it unfolded). W e now proudly own unit # 71- 0004 and usually get three to four thumbs up every time we take old ‘Rosebud’ out of the barn!

May I say the ‘ Flatnose Rules ’?